Empirical evidence and state of practice of software agile teams

Journal of Software: Evolution and Process

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 855-866

  Papatheocharous, Efi ^a   Andreou, Andreas S ^b  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Sweden)

^b CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

adoption; agile methods; software development; state of practice; survey; teams

Indexed keywords

COPYRIGHTS; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SERVICE INDUSTRY; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SURVEYING;

ADOPTION; AGILE METHODS; AGILE SOFTWARE PROCESS; COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS; STATE OF PRACTICE; TEAM ORGANIZATIONS; TEAMS;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84979944518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20477481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.1664     Document Type: Conference Paper

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